[It] portrays Spain as a country with a sense of humor, intelligence, and tolerance that should be an example for the world to follow. With so much goodness up there on the screen, it almost seems ungrateful to criticize the film for its technical faults.

| May 14, 2020

While straining credibility at times, offers some appealing scenes of quiet reflection, as well as a refreshing celebration of the ineffable allure and power of being middle-aged.

| Mar 1, 2007

The result is an episodic feel which lends itself that much more to the sense that Queens missed its calling as a soap opera. Indeed, the film lacks the complexity, visual style, and emotional charge of decent filmmaking.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 30, 2006

The star-heavy cast, which includes such big Spanish names as Carmen Maura, Marisa Paredes and Veronica Forque, are a treat to watch even when their dialogue isn't all it could be.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 6, 2006

Pedro Almodovar-flavored but quite tame.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 5, 2006

The frantic artificiality of the script rarely allows the characters to breathe. This is dinner-theater farce, featherweight and juiceless.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 29, 2006

The cast is perfect, but the script is like a low ceiling, keeping a lid on what should have been a confluence of riotous misadventures.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 28, 2006

Manuel Gmez Pereira's frantic direction is nonstop and the exhaustion of excess will get to you.

| Sep 23, 2006

| Original Score: B- | Sep 23, 2006

It feels like [Pereira] just plucked the men themselves from atop a wedding cake and stuck them in his movie, where for the most part they stand decoratively around and watch the women make suds from all this soap.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 22, 2006

With what amounts to 20 characters crossing paths, Pereira's job description might seem more traffic cop than director, but he rises to the challenge and adds style and splashy color to boot.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 15, 2006

Spanish director Manuel Gomez Pereira certainly draws inspiration from his compatriot Pedro Almodovar -- several of the actresses are even Pedro alums -- but the film falls short of Almodovar's usual depth and complexity.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 8, 2006

Unfortunately for director and co-writer Manuel Gomez Pereira, all the energy in the world isn't enough to compensate for the superfluous plot lines and outrageous overacting that weigh down this bit of warm-hearted Spanish fluff.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 7, 2006

We may be deep in Telemundo territory, but that doesn't diminish the glow-in-the-dark charisma of these impressive ladies.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Sep 7, 2006

Pereira goes in for lots of time shifts and split screens, piling on the contrivances like so many costume baubles when a single string of pearls would do.

| Sep 1, 2006

An ungainly, broadly played comedy.

Full Review | Aug 25, 2006

With five overbearing mothers and six overshadowed gay sons, this Spanish meet-the-parents ensemble farce aims for Almodvar but falls far short.

| Aug 25, 2006

Queens is distinguished from a hundred other slick screwballers only by virtue of its theme -- the first mass gay wedding in Spain. Otherwise, it's middle-of-the-road formula fare all the way.

| Aug 25, 2006

A dithering but generous Spanish farce, Queens follows the coming nuptials of three gay couples by focusing on their overbearing mothers.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 25, 2006

For all its contrivances, the film is cheerfully rude and surprisingly generous to the mothers, most of whom find sizzling new romances at an age when their American counterparts are reduced to sexless dithering or played as humiliating punch lines.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 25, 2006